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[Identification of item], in the M. L. Patterson Papers, #579-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Chattanooga (Tenn.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• College students--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Eufaula (Ala.)--Economic conditions.
• Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
• Lynching--Southern States.
• Patterson, M. L.
• Riots--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• South Carolina--Race relations.
• Spring Hill College--Students--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage.

Papers of M. L. Patterson of Columbus, Ga., chiefly concerning business and legal matters. There are a number of letters from Patterson's nephew in Eufaula, Ala. Topics include the settlement of debts, the destruction of financial records by Sherman's army, the suspension of writ of habeas corpus in nine upstate South Carolina counties following race riots over the lynching of black militiamen by Ku Klux Klan members in that state, and a race riot in Alabama after the 1874 election. Other items include financial agreements, the dispensation of the family estate, business conditions in Chattanooga, Tenn., and a letter from parents to their son, a student at Spring Hill College near Mobile, Ala.